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Oregon Scout. HE VOL. Vf. UNION, OREGON, THURSDAY, JULY 18, 188!). NO. 4. i The Oregon Scout, An IiidcprMMlfMit weekly journal, issued ev ery Thursday "niornini: l v JONES & CHANCE Y, Publishers and Proprietors. A. K. .Toni:s, I ttditor. )' ) It. OUAXCIIY, ( Foreman. ItATKS OK SUHSCKIl'TIOXi One eopv, one year . . 1.."0 " ' Six months 1.00 " ' Three niontos "." Invnrlnlily Cash In AUvnnco. If by chance subset iptions (ire not pn!d till end of year, twu tlnllnrs will be chnnjetl. Kates of advertising made known on ap plication. 32TCorrespoiulence from all parts of the country (.elicited. A dross all communications to the Oiiegox Scout, Union Oregon. I'llOFKSSlON'AU It. Eakin, J. A. Eakix, Notary Public. J EAKIN, it BROTHER, Attorneys at Law, Union, Oregon. -JSTPrompt Attention Paid to Collect.ons. JOHN Jt. ORITES, Attorney at Law. Collecting and probate practice special tics. Olllcc, two doors south of post-ollice, Union, Oregon. I. N. CROMWELL, M. D. Physician and Surgeon. Oflice. one door outh of J. 15. Eaton store, Union, Oregon. ,Q II. DAY, M. D., IIOMEPATIIIC Physician ami Surgeon ALL CALLS I'KOMl'TLY ATTLXDHl) TO. Office adjoining .Iono3 Pro's store. Can be lounil minus at resilience in ouum west Union. J. W. Sheltox. .1. M. Cahkoll gHELTON & CAHKOLL. Attorneys at Law. Oflice : Two doors south of post-office, Un ion, Oregon. Snecial attention given all business en trusted to us. rj H. CRAWFORD, Attorney at Law, Union, Oregon. Oflice, one door south of Centennial ho tel. L. DANKOKTII, M. I)., Physician ami Surgeon North Powder, Oregon. II I H A H K S O r W O I l: N A HI'ECIALT Y Calls attended to at all hours. A. U SAYLOR, M. )., Physician and Surgeon, North Powder, Oregon. Has permanently located and will attend all professional calls day or niglit Olllcc: Drug store building: residence, one ddRr west of Kodger' iiiiiH, hotel. J V. KIMPKELL, County Surveyor, And Deputy U. S. Mineral Surveyor, North Powder, Oregon. U. P. AVii-son. Notary Public. A. J. IIackktt. Notary Public. W ILSON & 1 1 AC RETT, Attorneys at Law. Collections and all other business entrus ted to us will receive prompt attention. A complete abstract of the land of Union countv in our otlice, Managers of the UNION KEAL ESTATE ASSOCIATION. OFFICE: UNION, OR. JAMES C DOW, Attorney at Law, Cornucopia, Oregon. Land Business Promptly Atten ded to Before the U.S. Offices. STMIniuK claims bought and sold on Aconimirfsioii. Mines examined and repor ted upon. J W. STRANGE, 'DENTIST, Lu Grande, Orogon. Will visit Union regularly on tho first Monday of oach month. ALL WORK WARRANTED FIRST CLASS dSGuns, Ammimit THE COVE. July 17, 1SS9. II. .1. Geer took a load of cherries to Summervillo last Tuesday. They met with ready s.de. Born. To the wife of George Ben ner, July 1-1, u ten ound son. Moth er and child doing well. Mrs. F. 1). Pugh has gone to Walla Walla and will probably visit the Wil lamette valley before her return. Misses Mona and Mary Swartz will start for Montana on Monday. They will go to Rosebud where their parents reside. The county assessor is interviewing our citizens this week. He intends to complete his labors in this precinct in a few days. Excursions to the Minam are being indulged in by young and old. An oc casional deer is seen and a large num ber of trout captured. Mr. Lou Child is in town from Spo kano Falls. He says that city is full of people and the streets crowded with vehicles day and night. Hands to help with the hay har vest are scarce and in demand. Good men who are not afraid of work will do well to come this way. Wm. Koenig, the builder, went to Union Thursday to put in bids for con structing the proposed Wallowa river and Willow creek bridges. The large two story addition to the Excelsior Tanning Company's estab lishment will be completed this week. Win. Koenig is the contractor. Win. Smith has moved his law li brary to Baker City and opened an oflice. The professor is attentive to business and will no doubt soon enjoy a lucrative practice. The amount of hay cured in the Cove this season will exceed, by con siderable, the crop of last year. Timo thy and wild hay will bo probably a third less, but many fields of grain arc being put up for hay. j Major Reese, of Walla Walla, broth or of M. B. Hcese, died last Saturday He had been Buffering from a stroke of apoplexy for some time and had lately been traveling, in hopes that a change of climate might prove beneficial. The North Powder boys have chal longed the Cove-Union club to play scries of games, but as tho boys are badly scattered it is not likely that tho challenge can be accepted at the present time. Misses Mollie Ilendershott, Grace Meacham and Gcorgic Powell went down the valley Trfhrsday to pay their schoolmate, Miss Annie McDonald, visit. Their many friends wish them a pleasant journey, a happy visit and a long stay. The output of the Cove dairy com pany's factory this year will bo about sixty tons of cheese, besides a large quantity of butter. The store room iB now crowded with cheese ready for tho market, and the company's salesman, E. P. McDaniel, is now on the road so liciting orders. Ho is meeting with gratifying success. JIMMIE CREEK. July 14, 1889. All in good health on tho creek as far as I know. A. T. Hewitt returned from Umatilla county recently. Clark Newman commenced Jiuying on the 8th inst. For a good sheep dog call on T. B. Seitz, of Ladd canyon. Mr. W. F. Thompson was visiting at Bradford's a few days ago. John Graham returned from the Snake river country recently. Mrs. W. H. Stallbrd and her sister, Miss Winnie Blakeslee, visited Union recently. ThoBradford Bros, commenced hay ing on the 10th. They expect to havo fcoine hay to sell this fall. Davo nnd Joo Bradford returned from Wallowa recently accompanied by T. B. Seitz and Orin Price. Our Jinunio Creek road was sur veyed tho other day by J. W. Kim brell, and viewed by Charles Grey, Thomas Shaw and John Graham. Tho viewers talked favorablo ol the road. PANCAKE ion, Field Glasses, F PINE CREEK. j I PicilIC to be GiVCH 1))' tllC PeO- pie of Kagle Valley. A PARADISE FOR THE FARMER. Mention of the Various Minos in the Pine Creek District. July 11, 1889. Editor Oiikkox Scorr: Since tho Fourth this region of tho mountains has been sutl'eriug from tho most execssivo heat, ninety-two in tho shade, and in Pine valley it has reached 101 degrees. The miners as sert that work on tho surface has been prosecuted midst execssivo prespira tion. Tho relief conies at night, when it is cool and invigorating. Tho bright rays of the sun, however, do not pre vent the work of prospecting from be ing energetically continued. The Red Jacket mill keeps up its regular pounding, only resting for three or four days before and after the national holiday, when all hands celebrated in a becoming manner. HAIIVKSTINO. The "hay diggers" aro improving the sun shine and hundreds of tons Btackcd np here and there is the re sult. As a rule two crops of alfalfa arc made during the summer and fall, but a farmer from Eagle says this year he will cut three. Under this sub head I will mention a gathering of tho farmers of Eagle valley which is to transpire on the first of August. Po nioiio, Cores and Flora will turn out in all their wealth of beauty and utili ty. A band will discourse music ap propriate to the occasion, and merry voices and dying feet will mark tho hours of niglit. During the fair tho products of the farm, the field and dairy will bo fully and largely repre sented. That valley, shut in by moun tains on every side, save where tho river forces its way to form a junction with Powder river, is protected from heavy winds and the cold wintry blasts, modifying the temperature to almost a tropical clime, which is made evi dent by tho productions of the soil which rival tho semi-tropical products of California in quantity and quality. Sweet potatoes, large and free from tendrils and blisters usually found on that vegetable, aro raided easily and in abundance. Tho Muscat and Isabella grapes arc not uncommon. Honey ciear anu transparent, is tounu on every table. The orchards, when was mere some tnreo wccks since were loaded with pears, apples, peach es and a great variety of plums. The trees on one farm, Hon. W. R. Usher's were all propped up so great was tho burden they bore, and tho grapes hung in clusters as large as any I ever saw in a more southern clinic. Winter docs not set in until the latter part of December and little or no snow falls, and that only to lay for a day or two, Powder river and Eaglo creek furnish an ample supply of water for irriga tion, and tho foot-hills aro covered with pins and tamarack. Hero is where tho harvest picnic of Union county will be held, and all thcto beauties and bountiful gifts are but twenty miles from tho hills, moun tains and mines of Cornucopia. THK MINKS. I must drop my revelling in fruits and flowers and como back 'once more to tho rocks and hills, and tho filthy lucre to the valley asleep at tho foot of the granites, for so I havo deemed it appropriate to call this portion of Pine valley. Tho Davis mill is rapidly approaching completion and the Blue Jacket is turning out its steady flow of free gold and Hiilphurets. Tho various old prospects aro hcing steadily worked. Some new mines aro coming to tho front, among which is tho MAVKItlUK worked and owned by Capt. Tyler and James Stephenson, formerly located by Dr. Howard and E. P. Rand. Tho ledgo is three feet widu between walls, with eighteen inches of rich ore, and returning a largo proportion of sub ihurets. Tho ledge is tho south ex tension of tho Last Chanco, Messrs, Tyler fc Co aro btill at work on tho edge. This morning they showed a fine tpecimeu of tho ledge free gold all through it. ishing Tackle, etc., at ' van- win km:. This is also the property of Tyler it Co., Jonathan Bourn biing one of this company. It lies between the Red Jacket and Whitman. The com pany has cut through one ledge, near the main body of ore, about eighteen inches thick, tho ledgo proper being three feet. They are working tho ledgo by tunnel which is now in eighty-four feet, sti iking the ledgo two hundred and fifty feet under ground. i . I'AKSO.V I.KIHiK. j , I A eorroapondent ot the Pacific Ex b. M. Beers has let a contract for a ... , , , , . . ... , . , , press describes allowa county, which tunnel of sixtv feet on the Parson ... , ,.. . , 1T . . , , was formerly a part of Union countv, ledge, situated on the lull one-fourth !ls f00wJ. . of a mile from town. "Jack in the wt.u'.ti , i , ,, ,, ,. , ,. Wallowa County is bounded on the Hole has the contract and is pushing i v ,, . , ,, . , . , , . , ' , b 1 North by aslungton, on tho East by it rapidlv. Ihov think to strike tho , ., , . , , 1 . - Snake river, on the South and West ledge in twenty feet further. , .. ,T . ,, . ,, " , by Union County. It presents home xokth sTAis. i pf t lio wildest, grandest, most majestic Work still going on on the North ! and beautiful scenery to be seen in Star on tho Red Jacket hill. All tho ! anv county in the state, outside of that prospects on this hill aro similar in i around Mt. Hood. Its rugged, ragged, character all strong and well defined. Everything around camp moving along smoothly. BAUDIN. HIGH ALLEY. Homo's lteguliir Iluil;ct of InturestliiK I. (Kill Soff, John Clino has purchased a now hack and parlor organ. The harvest is in full blast and the sickles are singing their song. Born. July 12, 1SS9, to the wife of Warden Hathaway, a daughter. Girls born in July may bo passably handsome but with a sulky temper. Professor Conklin made us a pleas ant call recently while on his way to his school at Medical Springs. Supervisor Minniek can be seen rambling around in search of Canada thistles. Hunt them out, John. Some who have held aloof from the railroad subsidy have subscribed some thing, much to the joy of all. We have two new twine binders at work, of tho Waller A. Woods patent, bought by the Wilkinson boys. There is quite a general complaint made about tho mail coming out of tho Union postolfice. Some have not received Tim Scour for three wcoks. we nave been told wny so many scnooi icacners aro oiu maids: Jt is because no woman of sense is willing to give up a sixty dollar position for ten dollar man. We saw an apple tree limb, thirty inches long, broken down with the weight of thirty-six apples growing on it. How is that for High valley, with Nathan Conklin for witness? Do not stand around and whino about your own town, but proceed to do something for its botterincnt. Do not think any one mean and dishonest and uncharitable when you aro only sufl'ering from a temporary sull'iision of your own gall. Do not go around pitying tho Johnstown sud'orers whon you are able to givo to tho Hunt rail road subsidy, and yet havo not put in your contribution with the rest of tho boys. Married. In Union, Oregon, July 1, 1889, Mr. Frank Ross and Miss Emma Mayotto, Frank Wilson, J. P., officiating. Thero goos our young friend. Wo noticed that ho had boon ailing for some time, as if thero was something wrong with his mind. Ho often talked of tho great happiness a man must experience when seated 'neath his own vino and fig tree, sur rounded by tho wifo of his bosom, et cetera. Ah ! it is very sad. But such things must bo or what would become of our census? If all of thcfo young fellows were proof against tho shafts of tho frisky archer, what would bo tho fate of this great and glorious country? Frank is u first-class young man, and wo know that Emma will tako tho best of care of him and see that ho docs not stay out too lato at night. Bo a good woman as you havo been a girl, got his dinners in time, for that is what lio likes, and you will bo enabled to got along with tho tyrant man, till tho time comes when trouble ceases to bother us all. Tho couplo havo hot tied on his ranch where he has been hutching for some time. That they may live long una nappy in tno rela tion of husband and wife, and tho cobwebs that heretofore adorned bach elor's hall bo Hwopt down to jippoar no more, and that Cupid's chain may grow stronger as tho years go by, is tho wish of their many friends. HOMO. Greatly Reduced Pri TUB WALLOWA. A Correspondent Reviews its Wonderful Resources. ENTERPRISE, THE COUNTY SEAT. Description of its Climate, Harm Lands, Mines, Forests, lite. craggy mountains, with their snow i;uuv, wp, ikj i.iwvuus, wiin iiu'ir rusning, rumuuiig, roaring waters boiling and foaming in their seeming madness and fury to find some place of quietude and rest; its grand and magnificent cascades and water falls as laughingly they plunge down hundreds of feet into tho abyss below; its palisades of rocks standing forth in imiuitation of ruined castles; its beautiful valley streams as they wind and wend their way, murmuring requiems for glory lost, until at last they blend themselves in tho vortex of watcis of tho mighty Columbia, and are swallowed up forever; its silvery lakes beautiful to behold with their clear and almost transparent waters, down into which the cyo can discern objects to the depth of from GO to 70 feet ; its grand and extensive forest of pine and fir; its vast area of treeless rolling, rich uplands; its beautiful, fer tile valleys; its splendid farms and pleasant homes. All these presenting a scenery at once beautiful grand and magnificent. ITS (M.TMATU. Tho clinmto in this county is almost as variable as tho dillbrent localities in which you may be located. Tho ele vation of tho Wallowa valley at its up per termination is 1000 feet above tho level of the sea, yet tho climate is con siderable milder than in tho same lati tude oust of tho Koeky Mountains. In tho Wallowa valley tho winter of 1885 and '8(5 was very mild and snow onlv fell to the depth of ten inches and the thermometer only registered below zero three or four days. Tho winter of 1887 and '88 was more severe and tho thermometer for eight days was from fourteen to thirty-live dgrces below zeto which was tho coldest over known in tho. valley before. L'ist win- tor, as is known, tho weather was very mild, tho thermometer only reaching zero twice and only four inches of snow fell in this valley. Yet tho cold weather is not felt so severely as in other sections whero tho thermometer does not register so low on account of the dry atinosphero and still tho spings are as pleasant as could bo ex pected in their latitude and altitude The summers aro delightful, oxtremo heat is unknown and tho summer ex lends into the fall months, its m:8omioi:.s. Thero aro in tho Wallowa county a number of lino valloy. Tho Wallowa valley watered by tho Wallowa river and divided into three valleys, tho low er valloy, tho middlo valloy, and tho upper valloy. Swamp Creek valloy, Lost and Paradise valleys aro prairies in the northern part of tho county and contiguous to the Grande Hondo river; Imuaha valley, tho Shcop creek coun tries and tho Snako river country. Tho products of theso valleys are var ied. Tho wallowa valleys aro pro ductive in wheat, oats, ryoand barley, and tho various grasses, producing in favorablo seasons as much us 30 to 40 bushels of wheat to tho acre; oats from 30 to (50 bushels; barley from -i0 to 80 bushels ; ryo is raised mostly for feed. Tho grastos do well, largo crops being cut. Fruits do well in various sections of tho county, particularly in tho Lout and Paradise valleys, and in the Imua ha. Tho latter valley is called the It aly of Oregon, as most all kinds of fruit aro raised there. In the Wallowa valley are homo fine orchards, and in tho Prairie Creek region fruits aro do ing finely. Of tho small fruits most ees at A. N. Gardner all kinds do well. Strawberries, goose berries, blackbeirics and raspberries yield abundantly, the flavors of which are delicious. Stock raising is one of the chief and main industrie of tho county. Largo hands of horses and herds of cattle arc seen in various parts of the county, but immense docks of sheep arc a common sight, wool being tho princi pal product of tho county although ag ricultural industry is now being prose cuted to a large extent; land which has hitherto been considered of no ac count for farming is now being brought under cultivation and producing large crops. ITS MINKS. Tho mines of Wallowa county aro now attracting considerable attention. The ledges discovered and prospects obtained therefrom justifying a further outlay of nionoy and time in their de velopment. Marble is also found, of superior quality and in largo veins. It is also claimed that placer dig- g.Hg8 hilV0 ,)cen di8Covored hl thoca8t. ern portion of tho county on tho Minam which prospect, according to old placer miners, suflit'iently well to pay for working. its i-oiikst?. There aro in tho county fine tracts of timber, pine and fir; these forests of timber are immense and only await means of transportation for thorn to bo utilized; and already in anticipation of it at no distant day, a railroad being built, are many sections of these lands being taken up. WATKIt rowKtt. Like most of tho eastern counties of Oregon, Wallowa county is blessed with an abundant supply of water power and it is estimated that tho fall to each mile is from f)0 to 100 feet, and that to secure a fall from 25 to 50 fect only a few hundred yards has to be tlumcd or ditched; but little of this power is now utilized and that only for homo purposes in running a few saw mills and grist mills for homo consumption. Although only accessible by wagon road, yot there aro many immigrants finding their way into the county, and laud is being taken up for homesteads and pre-emption very rapidly, and tho cluss of settlers coming into this sec tion of Oregon are intelligent and thrifty. KDUCATION is also receiving its fair sharo of notice from its citizens. Good schools are maintained and efficient teachers em ployed. Good and comfortable school houses aro being erected throughout tho county. That tho county is improving rapid ly is shown by tho following taken from tho assessors book of 1888. Article. Number. Value. Improved deeded lund ti2,(i3S acres f-12,7(12 Town lots S8,r90 Improvements on un- deeded land . . 19,870 Horses and mules fi.Oi'i ' 1-1 1,(192 Cattle 0,:i9!) 128,110 .Sheep . . -KMl'M 81.078 Kwiiio l,J!tr . .. Il.OOt Other property ... .. :MW,1(W Total valuo of taxublo property. .$1,073,148 Tho incrcaso for 1889 will bo, at least, one-third more than tho above in tho aggregate. Tho present out-look for crops is good. Tho drought which has visited almost all parts of the state was also felt in Wallowa, but tho lato rains, which commenced on Wednesday June 20th and continued until Sunday the .'10th, has not only rovived the drooping spirits of the people, but lias also rovived tho growing crops so that thero will bo a fair average yiold. The farmers are awaking to tho fact that they will in tho futuro uso tho means which naturo lias given thorn, and ure now making preparations for irrigating by forming companies to utilize tho abundanco of water which lies at thoir command, and thus, when nature does not supply tho demand, they can make uso of its substitute, irrigation'. Tho population of the county is about fiOOO and increasing quito rapid- School and church privileges aro ex cellent for a now country. KNTKItl'itlHK. Well and befittingly named, situated in the west end of the Upper valley and on tho north side of tho Wallowa river about in theceutcr of the county. (XiHtinSed on tail page. & Co's Jewelry Store.